Turkish American Cultural Alliance

Turkish American Cultural Alliance (TACA) is a non-profit, non-political Chicago based organization. It was formed in 1968. It creates public awareness for Turkish culture, Turkey and Turkish people in Chicago and Illinois, United States.

TACA is the main organizer of the annual Chicago Turkish Festival in collaboration with the Turkish General Consulate in Chicago attracting more than 100,000 visitors every year in the heart of downtown Chicago.

TACA's mission is to foster and promote the Turkish culture, art, history, and heritage among our communities, and to organize activities to bring together the Turkish-American Communities of Illinois and Northwest Indiana.

See also

• Turkish diaspora

External links

• Turkish American Cultural Alliance

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Turkey–United States relations

Diplomatic posts

• Embassy of Turkey, Washington D.C.
• Ambassadors of Turkey to the United States
• Ambassadors of the United States to Turkey
• Consulate General of the United States, Istanbul
• Permanent Mission of Turkey to the United Nations
  • Turkish House
• Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs

Diplomacy

• Chester concession
• Second Cairo Conference
• Truman Doctrine
• Zurich Protocols

Incidents

• Gourgen Yanikian
• Assassination of Orhan Gündüz
• TCG Muavenet (DM 357)
• Hood event
• 2008 United States consulate in Istanbul attack
• 2013 United States embassy bombing in Ankara
• Andrew Brunson
• Clashes at the Turkish Ambassador's Residence in Washington, D.C.
• Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi
• 2023 Turkish drone shootdown
• FBI investigation into Eric Adams' 2021 mayoral campaign
• Turkish Guantanamo Bay detainees
• United States recognition of the Armenian genocide

Military relations

• CIA activities in Turkey
  • Counter-Guerrilla
• Nomad Shadow
• Task Force Viking
• Denizköy VLF transmitter
• Incirlik Air Base
• Izmir Air Station
• Kisecik Radar Station
• Kürecik Radar Station
• Pirinçlik Air Base
• Office of Defense Cooperation Turkey

Related

• Ottoman Empire–United States relations
• 2010 FIBA World Championship final
• Turkish lobby in the United States
• American Hellenic Institute
• American Turkish Society
• American-Turkish Council
• Congressional Caucus on Turkey and Turkish Americans
• Federation of Turkish American Associations
• Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research
• Turkish American Cultural Alliance
• Turkish Coalition of America
• Turkish Women's League of America
• U.S.-Turkey Business Council
• American Turkish Friendship Association
• Assembly of Turkish American Associations
• Hollings Center
• Robert College
  • Christopher Robert
• Billy Hayes
  • Midnight Express

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